Research Program / Claims / psychological-time-1

Psychological time is one of the inner senses, provisionally termed the second inner sense, and is a natural pathway between the inner and outer worlds.

心理时间是内在感官之一，暂称第二内在感官，是内在世界与外在世界之间的天然通路。

Concept psychological time · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.

Seth sources (book §session)

dreams-projections §2
early-sessions-1 §23

Adjudicating experiment

The “natural pathway” must first be defined as a measurable information-processing function; otherwise, the ontological assertion cannot be adjudicated. Approximately 120 healthy adults could be recruited to complete eight weeks of standardized practice, followed by a within-subject crossover comparison of psychological time practice, focused-attention meditation, progressive relaxation, and rest. Simultaneous EEG and fMRI would be recorded, with pre-registered measures of power spectra, default mode network connectivity, network dynamics, and temporal task performance; classification would be validated using an independent held-out sample. The project would take approximately 12 months. Even if brain states can be distinguished, this would demonstrate only differences between states, not an additional sense or access to an independent world.